Punching-machine measuring attachment.



T. F. TYLER.

PUNCHING MACHINE MEASURING ATTACHMENT APPLICATION HLED FEB. 20, 1917.

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THADDEUS F. TYLER, OF HAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS.

I'UN CHING-MACHIN E MEASURING ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

Application filed February 20, 1917. Serial No. 149,976.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THADDEUS F. TYLER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Haverhill, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Punching-Machine Measuring Attachments,

ing machines, whereby, the various lifts aspunchcd or stamped out by the same will be received in nested relation and measured, thus, enabling the packagingof predetermined bulks for shippin It is also an object of the invention to provide an automatic signal means for the machine, which will be actuated when the desired number of lifts have been punched and passed into the receiving means. 7

Another object of the invention is to pro- 'vide an adjustable receiving means for the punchedheel lift in order that the length of the same may be varied to increase or decrease the capacity thereof.

Other objects relate to considerations of economy of production, installation and maintenance, durability in use and convenience and operation of the several mechanisms or parts entering into the construction of elements and the above defined general organization of the said elements.

All of the foregoing together with additional advantageous details. and arrangements of parts of the preferred embodiment of my invention will be clear from the specific description hereinafter contained, when read in connection' with the accompanying drawings forming a part thereof wherein said embodiment of the invention is illus- I trated for the purpose of facilitating a full understanding of the" present improvements.

In the drawings:

Figure l is. aside elevation of my improvedepunching machine measuring attachmerit;

Fig. '2 is a fragmentary longitudinal section through the improved adjustable receiving means;

Fig, 3 is a vertical transverse se tion through the same showing the manner of mounting; and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary detail in elevation of the electric signalingand circuit closin means together with a diagrammatic view 0 the signaling circuit.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the above described views to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now more specifically to the several figures of the said drawings, reference will be first had to the die punching machine which includes a stand 1 comprising suitable leg portions having laterall offset seats formed upon their lower extremities thereof and curved upper portions, which upper portions havearranged therein bearing openings, the purpose of which will be subsequently apparent. A die bed 2 is pivotally mounted upon the stand 1 through the medium of a transversely arranged pivot bolt 3, the said pivot bolt passing through the bearing openings in the curved upper portions of the stand and being secured against lateral displacement therein by any suitable means. A reciprocal punch 4 is arranged within the die bed 2 in suitable bearings and has disposed directly therebeneath a suitable die plate 5, the die plate as will be noted, being arranged over an opening as formed in the lower portion of the die bed 2, the opening conforming to the shape or configuration of the product to be stamped or punched bythe machine.

Engaged with the product receiving opening formed in the lower portion of the die bed 2 is the curved extremity of a tubular receivin member 6, the opposite extremity of which is extended into engagement with supporting means arranged upon a bench 7.

A plurality of vertically disposed standards S are fixedly arranged in spaced apart relation upon the top of the bench 7, it being noted that the standards are of different lengths and are arranged in vertical alinemcnt. Upon the upper portions of the standards there is arranged a plurality of bolts, indicated by the numeral 9. Depending arms 10 of different lengths are arranged upon the under face of a table 11 and have the lower extremities thereof slotted as at 12, whereby to receive the various bolts 9 as carried upon the standards 8 therethrough. Obviously, by tightening the bolts 9 upon ti t) the Slotted extremities of the arms 10, the, tahle ll as; married thereh may he. readily maintained in rigid adjusted position. A stop 1 is stt'lllttl to one portion of the table at .t'l and eneirolea that portion ol the tin hular reeeivimg memher (j adjaeent the free end thereo'll it heing noted that the said tuhnlar reeeiving memher extends longitln dinally of the tahle ll. i

A telenropie t uhular memher l?) is atarriet'l about the tree end oi the reeeivingn'iemher t and as is shown in the Fig. 2 has the rear extremity thereot' eloned. it may he here noted. that the tuhular reeeiving inemher 6 together with the teleseopio me1nher 15 eorresponda in shape thus. permitting: ready relative movement thereof and aha; insertion ol the same. that in one extremity ot the reeeivine memher (3 into the opening formed within the lower portion ol the, di v hed to permit; the paaaae e ot the punt-hed heel disk into the same.

A sectional supporting post It; is seemed to the rear aide ot' the, heneh top and lltlH the opposite extren'iitiest of its several neetiona slotted to permit relative movement ol the name and as a emisequenee, varying; ol? the height thereot. To maintain the seet'ional post in its adjusted position, suitahle rlamping means are passed through the alined slots and are adapted to he tightened l'or binding; the same in position. An eleetrieal hell IT is arranged upon the upper extremity ot the adjuatahle supporting post and has one oi" the oontaet terminals thereof eonnet-ted to a renilient eirenit closing element ltl, whien element is atlixed at one extremity to the rear side o'l the-supporting post il while the ren'iainin z extremity is hent out wardlv and norn'ially lies in spaeed apart relation from a eontaet point ll also allixed to the supporting post and eouneeted to the remaining eontaet terminal ot' the hell. lileetrie eoudnetora .20 are engaged with the eireu t rinsing rm 18 and the eontaet point l5? and are then extended into engagement with the opposite polea ot a suitahle z-eouree o'l ontinuoita energ' ril tllIIt-Z eolinpletinpan eleetrie eireuit wherehy to normally energize the roiiperat'ingy eirenit; elosine' tltltltilir i it desiredi a single point switeh may he interposeddn one olthe eonduetors ill to eontrol the pasnage of energy therethrongh into the eireuit elosingg element and the hell.

In operation the die hed i-l lri pivotallv adjinn- 1 upon the stand 1 to allow the tuhular reeeiving memher ti together with its telesa-opie melnher 15 to extend to a predetermined lentl'tln whereupon the same is then ,h'xedly neeured in its adjusted position. The tahle ll is now properlv positioned upon its respeetive standard ti to tally ,-:upport the adizn-ent p rtion ot the tuhular nnanlar t) and the leleseopie meraher lit, wrinzlenpoin the holta t) are of eourse tight ened. The puneh operating: means is now started, (causing a reeiproral movement to he in'iparted to the same and therehy causing the same to he intermittentl engaged with the die plate .7. Leather in sheets is now spread over the die plate 5') to permit the punching of heel disks from the same, by reason of the engagement of the said puneh l therewith. As the lifts are pnnehed from the sheet o'l lathtn the are passed downwardly into the enrved extremity of the re-- eeivin; memher i and are sueeessivel advaneed by the eontinued introduction of other lifts thereinto. As will he understood, the lifts within the tuhular memher (3 will he gradually passed into its teleaeopie memher l3. whieh v rason of its elosed rear wall will he extended and gradually 'lhllt'ttl into engagement with the outwardly hent portion ol' the eirruit (liming arm 18. tlnm l'oreinn the aame. into engagement with the eon: tart; head It) and eloaing the eleetrieai eirelzit whereupon the hell 1T will he operated. lpon the ringing of the hell t7. the operator will ot eourae he in'lornu-d that the desired hulk ol heel lift is within the tnhular reeeivin eiuemher and art-ordinal)" may diseonf'inue operation of the pnneh l. The heel li'lt may now he removed *Irom the tnhular l'et'UlVillyf memhera and tied in packages for shipping. To var the length ol the tuhular reeeiving memhers, the pivotal die hed is moved to dili'erent positions upon the pivot holt I) \'hereh to allow the said reeeiring memher a greater or less reeeiving apaeitv. ()hviously, when the maehine hed has heen adjusted to the desired position the tahle ll in properly positioned upon its several stainlards H to fully support thx adjaeent portions of the reeeiving memhera thereon.

Instead of emploving my improved heel lit't reeeiving' and measuring attaehn'ienta in eoniunetion with an adjuatahle type of panelling maehine, the same may he equally as well adapted for use, upon the nonauljnntahle type of punt-hing maehine and may also he raried in eontiguration, rilt'll as eonditions or pre'lerenee 1na dietate.

tt-l hereinlwtore imlieated do not wish to he understood as eonlining' the invention to the partienlar emhodiments ehosien tor illuntration herein, nor to the exact eonatria-tion, arrangement and adaption of the parts shown and deserihed, hut I reserve. the right to malce an v ehann'ea and alterations that fairly tall within the spirit and neope ol the invention.

l elaim:

In eomhina'tion. a hed. a punching meehaniam pivotally aupported on said hed, a to eeivinp' derive eommanieating with said panelling meehanism including a tnhular memher having one end theret'rl eurved and det zn'hahly engaged with the punching mechanism, a second tubular member having its outer end closed telescopically ('11- gaged with said first tubular member adapt ed to be moved with relation to the first. tubular member by the movement of artioles from the punching mechanism thereinto, and means for supporting the free end of said first tubular member and said second tubular member in adjusted position with relation to the punching mechanism.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature hereto.

THADDEUS F. TYLER. 

